Hartford Murder Trial Comes To A Close

Closing arguments in the Trevelle Dwight Dinham murder trial are planned for Thursday in Superior Court.

Both the prosecution and the defense rested their cases Wednesday, after which Judge Thomas P. Miano denied a defense motion for acquittal. Attorney Kirstin Coffin had told the court that one of the state's witnesses "displayed substantial confusion."

The trial began Monday with testimony from several witnesses, including a woman who testified that she saw the shooting. The woman identified Dinham, 41, as the killer.

The shooting happened on Sept. 24, 1999 on Albany Avenue after a fight over a bicycle, police said. Darien Martin, 26, was killed.

Dinham fled to his native Jamaica after the shooting. He was brought back to the United States in the summer of 2009.